Chinese scholar killer heard confessing to killing her, compares himself to Ted Bundy on tape

I don't know the circumstances of this murder but this happened not too long ago. the girl murdered by a chemistry TA.  Goes to show you can't always judge a book by its cover.

A few years ago, my cousin had her MIL from Vietnam visit. One day a young and (according to her) attractive guy from the apt complex, gave her and her MIL each a rose on Valentine day and told the MIL she was beautiful. He offer to give them a ride some time. I told her to never accept a ride from someone you don't know.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/chinese-scholar-killer-heard-laughing-confesses-killing-her-194200923--abc-news-topstories.html

VICTOR ORDONEZ and ELLE LUAN
June 25, 2019

Chinese scholar killer heard confessing to killing her, compares himself to Ted Bundy on tape
Chinese scholar killer heard confessing to killing her, compares himself to Ted Bundy on tape originally appeared on abcnews.go.com

The killer of a young Chinese visiting scholar who was studying at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I) can be heard chuckling in an audio recording obtained by ABC News after he says that he "hit her with a baseball bat" and decapitated her.

Brendt Christensen, a now-30-year-old former teaching assistant at the university, described to an FBI informant on secretly recorded audiotape how he kidnapped and killed Yingying Zhang shortly after picking her up on June 9, 2017.

Zhang, a 26-year-old Chinese visiting scholar and agriculture researcher at U of I, was last seen on video entering a black Saturn Astra on June 9, 2017. Although Christensen had pleaded not guilty, his own attorney admitted Christensen kidnapped and killed Zhang in his opening statement earlier this month. The defense added that it took issues with "the way the government says the events occurred."